5299.0: Wednesday, November 15, 2000: 8:30 PM-10:00 PM

Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: Presenting the Findings from the Updated AHCPR Clinical Practice Guideline for Smoking Cessation

In 1996, the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research) published the Clinical Practice Guideline for Smoking Cessation (No. 18). This evidence-based Guideline was intended to aid clinicians in intervening effectively with the estimated 50 million Americans who smoke. The Guideline was disseminated widely, and served as the basis for cessation programs, health systems changes and research. Because of important recent advances in tobacco research, a consortium of private and public entities has sponsored an Update to the Guideline. This Update, to be published in May 2000, as a Public Health Service Report, reconvened the original Panel of experts and charged them with updating and expanding the Guideline as appropriate. During this Update, 3000 new articles were identified, as many as were identified during the original Guideline process. This new pool of data allowed the Expert Panel to conduct more rigorous analyses and to examine new topics for the Update. This Symposium Panel moderated by Michael Fiore, chair of the Update panel, will present and discuss: 1) the methodology used in the Update; 2) the efficacy of psychosocial interventions with focused analysis of treatment approaches and intensity; 3) the efficacy of pharmacotherapy treatments; 4) special populations and topics including, adolescents, pregnant smokers, racial and ethnic minorities, weight gain and cost-effectiveness; 5) translating findings into practice: Guideline strategies for Brief Interventions, Intense Interventions, and Interventions for Health Care Systems; and 6) the relevance of the Updated Guideline to the public health community
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Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives
Moderator(s):Brion J. Fox, JD
Organizer(s):Michael C. Fiore, MD, MPH
8:30 PMTreating Tobacco Use and Dependence: the Findings from the Updated AHCPR Clinical Practice Guideline for Smoking Cessation and their Relevance to the Public Health
Guideline Panel Guideline Scientific Staff
8:45 PMTreating Tobacco Use and Dependence: the Findings on the Efficacy of Pharmacotherapy Interventions from the Updated AHCPR Clinical Practice Guideline for Smoking Cessation
Guideline Panel Guideline Scientific Staff
9:00 PMTreating Tobacco Use and Dependence: the Findings on the Efficacy of Psychosocial Interventions with Focused Analysis of Treatment Approaches and Intensity from the Updated AHCPR Clinical Practice Guideline for Smoking Cessation
Guideline Panel Guideline Scientific Staff
9:15 PMTreating Tobacco Use and Dependence: the Findings Regarding Special Populations and Topics from the Updated AHCPR Clinical Practice Guideline for Smoking Cessation
Guideline Panel Guideline Scientific Staff
9:30 PMTreating Tobacco Use and Dependence: the Methodology of the Updated AHCPR Clinical Practice Guideline for Smoking Cessation
Guideline Panel Guideline Scientific Staff
9:45 PMTreating Tobacco Use and Dependence: Translating the Findings from the Updated AHCPR Clinical Practice Guideline for Smoking Cessation into Practice
Guideline Panel Guideline Scientific Staff
Sponsor:Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs

The 128th Annual Meeting of APHA